• Is compilation just another test? Should it be?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50060

• Android? FX Mobile?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/
  2008/07/android_lost_in.html
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=43542&tstart=0
  

• Java Library of the Week - OFX4J
• http://ofx4j.sourceforge.net

Quick News

• The Legion of the Bouncy Castle has released version 1.4 of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API
• http://www.bouncycastle.org/

• The Little Tutorials blog has a nice introduction to using JSR 223 compliant scripting languages on the JVM to provide macro or extension capabilities for your customers
• http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/10/script-thy-java-app/

• DZone continues with the free refcard releases, this time with a glassfish refcard
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50054

• Remember former application of the week BlueMarine?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/07/various_update.html

• The EMEA Horizons conference is to be held in Munich, Germany from October 6th to the 9th
• http://wikis.sun.com/display/JavaCAPSHorizons/
  Java+CAPS+Horizons+Summit+-+EMEA+2008

• A new report from Fortify software says that Java Open Source Software projects need a stronger focus on security
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-report-
  oss-projects-need-tighter-focus-on-security.html

• JRuby 1.1.3 has been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/
  07/19/JRuby+1.1.3+Released

• The Jython team has released an alpha version of Jython 2.5
• http://jython.org

• Sourceforge has released the list of finalists for the sourceforge community choice awards
• http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-finalists
  

• SpringSource - creators of the popular Spring enterprise Java framework - have made SpringSource Enterprise generally available
• http://www.springsource.com/products/enterprise
  

• Java running on the iPhone 2.0!
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/java4iphone/entry/java_for_iphone_iphone_3g
  

• Alex Potochkin has taken over from Hans Muller as spec lead for the JSR
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/other_peoples_l.html 
• http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/
  001693_hans_muller_left_sun_for_adobe.html
  

• Apple has released XCode 3.1
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_17_2008_22224
  

• Javalobby has a roundup of several Java performance tuning and troubleshooting tools
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-performance-troubleshooti-0 
  

• Topcoder have just announced the Notus FOKYC Data Access Objects Java development competition
• http://www.wittysparks.com/2008/07/19/
  topcoder-java-development-competition-1500-in-prizes/
  

• The NetBeans site has a tutorial for using a ReST based web service
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/websvc/zillow.html
  

• JavaWorld has an article comparing and contrasting three different and popular options for Java persistence: iBatis, JPA and Hibernate
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2008/
  jw-07-orm-comparison.html?page=7

• Caoyuan blogs that he has integrated Scala's native compiler into the NetBeans Scala plugin
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/
  employ_scala_s_native_compiler
  

• Sun has released version 1.0 of the Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/
  archive/2008/07/sun_java_system.html
  

Listener feedback

A superb discussion on User Organized conferences in the Java (and other) spaces. Also learn about JavaPolis, Javoxx, Codemash and other User Organized developer conferences and get an insight into Java User Groups. Also some clever Guerilla marketing ideas.

• JavaPolis (now Javoxx)
• http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Home
• Java.net
• http://java.net
• Codemash
• http://www.codemash.org/
• Openspace Conferences
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
• PyCon
• http://www.python.org/community/pycon/
• Lightning Talks
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk
• Link to youtube videos of lightning talks from Java Posse Roundup 08
• http://www.youtube.com/javaposse
• BeJUG
• http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Home
• Mindview
• http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php
• IT Conversations
• http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/
• Parleys.com - Recorded talks from JavaPolis and other conferences
• http://parleys.com
• JavaOne
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
• SpringOne
• http://www.springone.com/display/SpringOne08/Home
• Java User Groups
• http://java.sun.com/community/usergroups/
• Javapolis Newsletter
• http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Newsletter
• Java Champions program
• https://java-champions.dev.java.net/
• Question Pro for surveys
• http://www.questionpro.com/

• Do we need a thread safe swing?
• http://www.kaijaeger.com/java-swing-is-not-thread-safe.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/
  2004/10/multithreaded_t.html

• When it comes to RIAs, have Google and Apple backed the right, or wrong, horse?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/wicked_game.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/06/this_town_aint.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/all_you_ever_wa_1.html
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/vote-for-browsers
• http://280slides.com
  

• Java on Linux - still losing the popularity war?
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/26/1630250
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/you_owe_me_some.html
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/
  2008/06/java_is_free_at.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
  2008/07/free_java_is_no.html

Quick News

• The dates for this year's Silicon Valley Code Camp have been set by Mike Van Riper and Kevin Nilson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/
  2008/07/call_for_speake_1.html

• Mojarra has released an early draft review implementation of JSF (Java Server Faces) 2.0, also known as JSR 314
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_edr
• And Sun has a collection of introductory articles for features in the new draft version, written by Ryan Lubke of the Mojarra team
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_preview_series2

• Canoo software has released a new version of its Ultra-light Client (ULC)
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  web-apps-easier-and-faster-wit

• James Ervin has written up his notes from the recent Eclipse day held at Google
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/notes-eclipse-day-googleplex

• The iScreen project has releases iScreen version 2.0.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49903

• The first release candidate of Loom 1.0 is also available now
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49905

• Chris Adamson has put out a plea for a decent filesystem API to be included in Java 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/please.html
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/
  jsr-203-new-file-apis.html

• Remi Forax notes that the BGGA closure implementation source code is now available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/07/source_of_bgga_1.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/07/alternative_syn.html

• Retrotranslator 1.2.7 has been released, and now offers support for the Java 5 memory model
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49847

• JBoss.org has an update on the status of JBoss Application Server version 5.0
• http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/jboss_as_5_0_status

• The server side and related sites did a survey of BEA customers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49913

• Apache has released the first version of Apache Sling
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49864

• Google has open sourced their Protocol Buffers technology
• http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/
  protocol-buffers-googles-data.html

• Super-quick NetBeans roundup
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
  newsItemID=1256
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/08/
  Python-backing-eyed-for-NetBeans_1.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/
  netbeans_ide_6_5_milestone

• Java 6 Update 10, the new Consumer JRE and faster, lighter plugin, has hit one million downloads!
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
  messageID=284824&tstart=0#284824

• The first Commodore 64 LAN party
• http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/06/2114221.shtml

• Sun has posted a maintenance release of JSR 252 - JavaServer Faces 1.2
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  mrel/jsr252/index2.html

• A recent Google tech talk on Kilim has been released on YouTube
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NaHRE0Sqw
• http://kilim.malhar.net

• The first public review draft of JSR 300 - DRM API for Java ME
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pr/jsr300/index.html

• Danesh Zaki has released TumbleJ, a Tumblr API for Java applications
• http://www.daneshzaki.com/post/38636047/tumblej

• Mylyn now at version 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49859

• Nuxeo have released the first version of their web engine
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50020

• The OpenDS project has released version 1.0.0 of OpenDS
• http://www.opends.org/

• Ahmadsoft has released ropes for Java
• http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/

• WS02 has released version 1.7 of what it calls the fastest open source ESB in the world
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49834

• And finally, while you are waiting for the new video codecs for Java, another alternative might be jFlashPlayer
• http://www.engineeringserver.com/blog/2008/06/01/
  jflashplayer-embed-flash-videos-in-your-application/
  

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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